Markus Zusak Quotes

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

Listen. O’ listen.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

There's something special about 'Looking.'

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

You power through it word by word, line by line.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

I don't read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn't help. Concentration has to be in the right place.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

We become what we look at most.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.